Tech & Pop Culture in Teaching Economics

I spent a tremendously useful forty minutes this evening watching a streamed presentation from Simon Halliday an economist at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Simon gave a talk to his university colleagues in September 2010 about his experimentation in using different types of music, movies, images and open source content to enhance his own teaching and it was fantastic to see his energy and the many good ideas in his talk. His section on using movie clips has already given me more avenues to follow to build on our own highly successful Economics at the Movies blog posts from a few months back.

If you want to have a look at the presentation head over to this link on the Vimeo site.

Simon is on Twitter (as many passionate like-minded economics educators are!) here is his Twitter feed